Kevin Brookman has reported on his blog that Mayor Eddie A. Perez's driver, 51-year-old Pedro Bermudez, was involved in a car accident at Park and Lafayette streets today. He said police later learned Bermudez was driving with an expired license. Get the details here.

A lot has been written lately about squirrels. It seems like a bunch of people are having issues. Sometimes squirrels need to be eliminated. It's a fact of life. They can get in your house and make a nest and a mess. When you try to feed the birds, the squirrels can eat all your seed. They blow up electrical transformers and put out the lights. Hey, you can even get into a car wreck because of one.. For those of you who do have issues and need to eliminate a few, don't let them go to waste.

A 21-year-old man is recovering from injuries after a car wreck, a 70-foot fall down a cliff and possible hypothermia that he suffered while rescuers searched for him. Emergency workers used a search dog and an all-terrain vehicle to rescue him. Jesse Pozvek was in stable condition at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, a nursing supervisor said Sunday. Pozvek apparently lost control of his 1999 Mercury Cougar a little before 1 a.m. Sunday as he drove south on Route 8 near Exit 40, according to state police.

Zap2It reports : Lindsay Lohan is in the emergency room at a Los Angeles hospital following a car wreck that totaled her car. According to reports, Lohan -- who is currently filming Lifetime's Elizabeth Taylor biopic "Liz & Dick" -- was driving her black Porsche on the highway when she collided with an 18-wheeler truck. Read the complete story at www.zap2it.com .

A local woman was killed when her car went over an embankment on Hill Road Saturday, police said. Debra Turner, 37, of 429 E. Main St., was thrown from her Nissan Pulsar when it went off the road, also known as Route 222, near the Harwinton line at 2:16 p.m. Her body was found near the car, police said. Turner was pronounced dead at the scene. Her body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Farmington for an autopsy.

A 52-year-old man died early Sunday when his car crashed on Route 9, state police said. Joseph J. Ferreri, of New London, was traveling on southbound Route 9 about 1:40 a.m. when the Mazda Miata went off the road south of Exit 7 and struck a wire guardrail, police from the Westbrook barracks said. The car went through the guardrail and down an embankment before striking a tree. Ferreri was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Fifteen-year-old Brandon Specyalski spent the last hours of his life at home in Ashford drinking beer, downing shots of vodka and snorting ground-up morphine tablets he had taken from his mother, according to friends interviewed by police. Though his death on Aug. 24 was labeled an accidental overdose by the state medical examiner, a state police investigation into the circumstances leading up to it resulted in his mother, Heather Specyalski, 38, being charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor.

Zap2It reports : Lindsay Lohan is in the emergency room at a Los Angeles hospital following a car wreck that totaled her car. According to reports, Lohan -- who is currently filming Lifetime's Elizabeth Taylor biopic "Liz & Dick" -- was driving her black Porsche on the highway when she collided with an 18-wheeler truck. Read the complete story at www.zap2it.com .

A lot has been written lately about squirrels. It seems like a bunch of people are having issues. Sometimes squirrels need to be eliminated. It's a fact of life. They can get in your house and make a nest and a mess. When you try to feed the birds, the squirrels can eat all your seed. They blow up electrical transformers and put out the lights. Hey, you can even get into a car wreck because of one.. For those of you who do have issues and need to eliminate a few, don't let them go to waste.

A van to take Coventry senior citizens and residents with disabilities on errands and visits is up and running. "We're excited because transportation in a rural setting is very difficult," Town Manager John Elsesser said, "and we're glad we're able to obtain this grant and provide this service to help our seniors continue to live in this town." The new maroon van, purchased with grant money, was delivered last fall, but the town's human services department needed to line up volunteer drivers and get them trained.

Survivors of Bennett C. Cheney are sponsoring a pasta dinner May 16 in memory of the young man who was killed in a car wreck in February. The Cheney family is trying to raise money to buy new drums and other instruments for the marching band at New Britain High School. Cheney, 21, was a graduate of the school and a drummer. "Ben would volunteer his time going back to NBHS to work with band Director David Kayser to help teach students how to read music and play the drums," said a statement from his family.

Kevin Brookman has reported on his blog that Mayor Eddie A. Perez's driver, 51-year-old Pedro Bermudez, was involved in a car accident at Park and Lafayette streets today. He said police later learned Bermudez was driving with an expired license. Get the details here.

A 21-year-old man is recovering from injuries after a car wreck, a 70-foot fall down a cliff and possible hypothermia that he suffered while rescuers searched for him. Emergency workers used a search dog and an all-terrain vehicle to rescue him. Jesse Pozvek was in stable condition at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, a nursing supervisor said Sunday. Pozvek apparently lost control of his 1999 Mercury Cougar a little before 1 a.m. Sunday as he drove south on Route 8 near Exit 40, according to state police.

A 21-year-old man is recovering from injuries after a car wreck, a 70-foot fall down a cliff and possible hypothermia that he suffered while rescuers searched for him. Emergency workers used a search dog and an all-terrain vehicle to rescue him. Jesse Pozvek was in stable condition at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, a nursing supervisor said Sunday. Pozvek apparently lost control of his 1999 Mercury Cougar a little before 1 a.m. Sunday as he drove south on Route 8 near Exit 40, according to state police.

Fifteen-year-old Brandon Specyalski spent the last hours of his life at home in Ashford drinking beer, downing shots of vodka and snorting ground-up morphine tablets he had taken from his mother, according to friends interviewed by police. Though his death on Aug. 24 was labeled an accidental overdose by the state medical examiner, a state police investigation into the circumstances leading up to it resulted in his mother, Heather Specyalski, 38, being charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor.

By all rights, Brian Beauchamp should be in prison. Two days before Thanksgiving of 2003, he drove a high-performance BMW head-on into a car driven by Bettina Larrow of Manchester. More than three weeks later, five days before Christmas, Larrow died. Beauchamp was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced in 2004 to five years in prison. He was supposed to be incarcerated until October 2009. But a judge in Superior Court in Manchester recently decided to give Beauchamp a break.

A Rocky Hill woman faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to charges stemming from a December car wreck that killed a popular Cromwell teacher. Susan Fitzgerald, 48, faced up to 10 years in prison for second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle while under the influence, and three months for pleading guilty to failure to insure a motor vehicle, Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Clifford said. Under a plea agreement, Fitzgerald will face a maximum of 10 years, suspended after five, and five years' probation.